Analyze

Measure Clash Detection Redline Standards Checker Design File Checkup Reports Area Tools
Figure 1. Analyze tab

Measure

Figure 2. Measure group

Setting

Description

Measure Distance

Used to measure distance.

Measure Radius

Used to measure:
  • The radius of a circle or circular arc.
  • The radius of a cone or cylinder.
  • The primary and secondary axes of an ellipse or elliptical arc.
  • The radius of a circular segment or axes of an elliptical segment of a complex chain or complex shape.

Measure Angle

Used to measure the angle between two lines or segments of a line string, shape, or multi-line.

Measure Length

Used to measure the length of an element(s) and analyze mass properties.

Measure Area

Used to measure area and perimeter.

Measure Volume

(3D only) Used to measure the volume enclosed by an element or a set of elements and to analyze mass properties.

Clash Detection

Figure 3. Clash Detection group

Setting

Description

Clash Detection

Allows you to identify sets of elements to be used for the detection of physical clashes and clearance problems between the elements.

Previous Clash

Selects the previous physical clash or clearance problem.

Next Clash

Selects the next physical clash or clearance problem.

Redline

Figure 4. Redline group

Setting

Description

Redline Display

Opens the Display Redline Files dialog, which is used to enable or disable the display of attached redline files.

Redline Off

Used to detach redline files from the active model.

Markups

Used to view markups made in an overlay file in Bentley Navigator. A markup can be annotation text, freehand redlining, pen and area highlighting.

Place Flag

Used to place a flag.

Show/Edit Flag

Used to display or edit the explanatory message for a flag(s).

Update Flag

Used to view markups made in an overlay file in Bentley Navigator. A markup can be annotation text, freehand redlining, pen and area highlighting.

Markups

Used to view markups coming from older Overlay files. A markup can be annotation text, freehand redlining, pen and area highlighting

Standard Checker

Figure 5. Standard Checker group

Setting

Description

Standards Checker

Used to run checks that compare the information in a DGN file against standards in DGN libraries (DGNLibs).

Configure

Used to define and store a collection of settings for a standards check.

Design File Checkup

Figure 6. Design File Cleanup group

Setting

Description

Design File Cleanup

Used to identify duplicate elements, overlapping elements and/or gaps between elements in the active design file.

Reports

Figure 7. Reports group

Setting

Description

Reports

Used to create and manage reports and report definitions.

Area Tools

Figure 8. Area Tools group

Setting

Description

Measure Area and Place Text

Allows you to measure area of closed 2D shapes and place it as text or a text field in a design.

Calculate Area and Place Text

Allows you to calculate area and place the area value as text in a design.

Place Area and Place Text

Allows you to calculate area using a block and place it as text in a design.

Parameter Settings

Allows you to set parameter for the area tools.